Current Trends in European Second Language Acquisition Research

Part 1 Theory and methodology in second language acquisition research: nouns and verbs in the learner's lexicon typological markedness as a research tool in the study of second language acquisition foreign language acquisition and the development of automaticity competing plans in second language processing. Part 2 Children's first and second language acquisition: early bilingual reading - retrospects and prospects the relationship between native and foreign language learning ability - educational and linguistic factors investigations into classroom discourse the linguistics of enunciative operations and second language learning. Part 3 Reference in second language acquisition: the development of means for temporality in the unguided acquisition of L2 - crosslinguistic perspectives reference and discourse structure in the learning of French by adult Moroccans. Part 4 Crosslinguistic interaction in second language acquisition: effects of transfer in foreign language learning input from within - Utrecht research into crosslinguistic influence in formal language learning environments language contact and culture contact - towards an integrative approach in second language acquisition research.